Neck-yoke attachment



(No Model.)

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THOMAS COPELAND MAGGS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

NECK-YOKE ATTAC HM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,592, dated April 8, 1884. I Application filed October 9, 1883. (No model.) I

Tu all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs C. Mnees, a subject of Great Britain, residing in the city of Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Neck-Yokes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the center attachment for neck-yokes,in which two clamps are placed around the yoke and fastened at the top by a hinge, as per specification, and at the bottom by bolts and nuts, as per specification; and the object of my in vention is to place before the public a reliable, durable, and easily-adjustable article for the purpose intended.

The mechanism in the accompanyingdrawings presents the rarious points of my invention.

Figure 1 is an end view of the combination as fastened around the yoke. Fig. 2 is a side view, presenting the back part when in use. Fig. 3 is the back clamp. Fig. 4 is the front clamp, with notch K between two lugs, each containing a small groove. Figs. 3 and 4 present a plan of the combination, having for the frontal view the lower part when in use, with the concave surfaces of the clamps facing each other.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

' In Fig. 1, A is an adjustable hinge. B isa j bolt; D, the back clamp; E, the front clamp; I F, one of the bolts which hold them (the, clamps) together; G, one of the nuts on the l bolt F; H, the leather portion of the attachment; I, the hole through which the pole of the vehicle passes; L, the circle formed by the clamps when closed, and in which the yoke is placed.

In. Fig. 2, G is a lug, with the bolts B B molded on it.

In Fig. 3, J is a projection of the lug C to I fill the notch K in Fig. 4.

By placing the clamps D and E together, back to back, the lug G falls into the notch K, and by closing them, as in Figs. 1 and 2 the projection J in Fig. 3 fits and exactly fills notch K in Fig. 4, and the bolts B B fall into the grooves in the lugs molded 0n clamp D. Bolts F and F, which are either molded in one of the clamps or put through holes in both,

go through the leather H above the hole I and through the opposite clamp, as in Figs. 1 and 2. and are made fast by the nuts G G, as in Figs. land 2.

What I claim as my invention, "and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

The lug G, with bolts B and B molded on it. the projection J, and the notch K between two grooved lugs molded on clamp D, all taken in combination to form the adjustable hinge A,

, substantially as shown, and for the purposes set forth.

Dated October 5, A. D. 1883.

THOMAS COPELAND MAGGS. Witnesses:

J AY FULLER, THOMAS HIsLor. 

